What happens to your body when you start to exercise consistently?
At the beginning of exercise: muscle soreness Many people assume that the soreness after exercise is due to lactic acid buildup. But this soreness has a specialized medical name: delayed onset muscle soreness ( DOMS ). Researchers have found that lactic acid returns to its previous level soon after exercise, and that soreness is more likely to come from microtrauma to the muscle fibers and secondary inflammation. It tends to hit 12 to 48 hours after strenuous exercise and then disappears after 2 to 10 days. Micro-trauma of muscle fibers is a sure way for muscles to get stronger. As the saying goes, you can't get stronger without breaking down, and this is true in the body. As your body gradually adjusts to the intensity and duration of the exercise, the soreness decreases and the sweetness that comes after the pain begins to appear. First is the increase in resting metabolic rate. That is, the rate at which calories are burned when used only to be to maintain basic physiological ...